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blanch
1[ blanch, blahnch ]
verb (used with object)
- to whiten by removing color; bleach:
Workers were blanching linen in the sun.
- Cooking.
- to scald briefly and then drain, as peaches or almonds to facilitate removal of skins, or as rice or macaroni to separate the grains or strands.
- to scald or parboil (meat or vegetables) so as to whiten, remove the odor, prepare for cooking by other means, etc.
- Horticulture. (of the stems or leaves of plants, as celery or leeks) to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding light.
- Metallurgy.
- to give a white luster to (metals), as by means of acids.
- to coat (sheet metal) with tin.
- to make pale, as with sickness or fear:
The long illness had blanched her cheeks of their natural color.
verb (used without object)
- to become white; turn pale:
The very thought of going made him blanch.
blanch
2[ blanch, blahnch ]
verb (used with object)
- to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
blanch
/ blɑːntʃ /
verb
- also intr to remove colour from, or (of colour) to be removed; whiten; fade
over the years the painting blanched
the sun blanched the carpet
- usually intr to become or cause to become pale, as with sickness or fear
- to plunge tomatoes, nuts, etc, into boiling water to loosen the skin
- to plunge (meat, green vegetables, etc) in boiling water or bring to the boil in water in order to whiten, preserve the natural colour, or reduce or remove a bitter or salty taste
- to cause (celery, chicory, etc) to grow free of chlorophyll by the exclusion of sunlight
- metallurgy to whiten (a metal), usually by treating it with an acid or by coating it with tin
- tr,usually foll byover to attempt to conceal something
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Example Sentences
Most Republicans blanch instinctively at the political rhetoric of “the new Cleveland.”
True, many Brazilians—and not a few of his fellow city councilors—blanch at Apolinário's fevered views.
His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch.
Blanch squash for about one minute, drain and cool with cold water.
Blanch the spinach and parsley in boiling salted water until completely tender and then cool in ice water.
A cry, which heard, even at noon day, seldom fails to blanch the manliest cheek.
Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost.
"Yep, he air dead," fell from Tessibel; for she had seen the large, glazed eyes draw in at the corners and the little face blanch.
And then his steady successes were offset by a disaster that caused even his face to blanch.
Pare fruit if desired or blanch or scald in boiling water a small quantity of fruit at a time.
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